Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Milagro marks a brave attempt at a humanist western. It is a genre in which faith and good works reinforce each other, Anglo pragmatism rubs shoulders with Latino magic, and John Wayne might peacefully coexist with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The spirits may stir up a gust of wind, a kind of Milagro airlift, to bring the good word to town. And a cowboy (James Gammon) with a forbidding face -- you figure him to be the Jack Palance villain from Shane -- may up and save your life. Nobody will get hurt, except in the pride. Finally, the village will erupt into...
...visitor to Chicago in the winter is immediately confronted with the chilling winds which gust ashore from Lake Michigan...
Owing to a simple wisdom and a gust of wind, the Canadians stuck to human sentiments: happy children were the heart of the show. Kept to a blessed minimum were gimmicks like an inflatable mountain that wouldn't inflate and obligingly blew away. Folk dances prevailed, so much sweeter than production numbers, and the prancing horses of the Mounties outdid the screeching jets. Lassos twirled, cowboys strummed guitars, and a twelve-year-old girl lighted the candle...
...second gust of reform to hit the Deep South in a month, similar to the election of Buddy Roemer as Governor of Louisiana, Mississippi's partner at the bottom of most measures of prosperity. Both men are young reformers with graduate degrees from Harvard who are dedicated to dispelling the tarnished establishments that have dominated their states' politics, beefing up education systems and aggressively seeking new forms of industry...
...Wind shear was also deemed a possible culprit. Abrupt wind shifts were responsible for the last major crash of a U.S. carrier, a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 jet in Dallas on Aug. 2, 1985. In Detroit, Flight 255 had been rerouted to another runway to avoid a gust of wind from a distant thunderstorm. Still another hypothesis concerned the baggage loading: investigators examined the possibility that too much cargo may have been placed toward the rear of the aircraft, tipping the center of gravity aft and causing the plane to go out of control...